Episode 144 – News for April 28, 2016

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DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE – The 144,000

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 28

• 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans
  *1984 – Dustin was born
• 1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident
• 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia
• 1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Researchers made a battery that lasts 400 times longer
• Reef discovered at the mouth of the Amazon

POLITICS AND RELIGION

• Target getting boycotted over transgender friendly policy
• Colorado Supreme Court refuses to take up cake case
• It’s a eucharistic miracle!
• Turkey’s parliament speaker wants an Islamic constitution
• Priest convicted of raping children has been reassigned
• Northern Idaho man sues Idaho DOT employee over insurance god | Via Raw Story
• Two Zambians burned alive in witch hunt

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